busk

verb

1. (UK, especially, intransitive)To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
2. (obsolete, transitive)To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.

   “The frothy orator, who busked his tales In quackish pomp of noisy words”

3. To tack, cruise about.
4. (Northern-England, Scotland, transitive)To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

   “Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride.”

   “The watch stert up and drew their weapons bright / And busk'd them bold to battle and to fight.”

5. (Northern-England, Scotland)To go; to direct one's course.

   “Ye might have busked you to Huntly-banks.”

noun

1. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

   “Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.”

2. (broadly)A corset.

   “Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.”

3. (obsolete)A kind of linen.

   “Busk, a kind of table linen, occurs first in 1458, and occasionally afterwards.”

name

1. A feast of first fruits among the Creek tribe of Native Americans, celebrated when the corn is ripe enough to be eaten.
2. A surname.
3. A city in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.